Blair v. Herold’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions

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1. ““(8) It is hereby mutually agreed that in consideration of the mutual stipulations of these articles and for the further considerations of one hundred dollars ($100) paid by DeWitt C. Blair (the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged by said John I. Blair), and the love and affection borne by tbe said John I. Blair to bis son, tbe said DeWitt O. Blair, and for divers other good and valuable considerations received by the said John I. Blair from the other parties to this agreement, that upon the death of the said John I. Blair, should the same happen during the period herein or hereafter agreed for the con tinuance of said copartnership, all of the rights, title, share, equities and demands whatsoever, then theretofore owned and remaining, or then held, or claimed by the said John I. Blair In the said capital, or any increase or profits thereon, or of, In or to any of these assets or rights of said firm, shall, upon such death, become transferred to, vested in, and owned by the said De Witt O. Blair, absolutely, as his property. “(9) In consideration of the premises, it is further agreed by all the parties hereto that, upon the happening of the contingency provided for in article 8 above, the said share, rights and property so accruing to the said DeWitt O. Blair from the said John I. Blair, at the latter’s death, shall continue and be retained in the said copartnership business during the term or terms of its continuance herein or hereafter agreed upon between the said partie”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Herold v. Blair

2. ““Sec. 29. That any person or persons having in charge or trust, as administrators, executors, or trustees, any legacies or distributive shares arising from personal property, where the whole amount of such personal property as aforesaid shall exceed the sum of ten thousand 'dollars in actual value, passing, after the passage of this act, from any person possessed of such property, either by will or by tbe intestate laws of any state or territory, or any personal property or interest therein, transferred by deed, grant, bargain, sale, or gift, made or intended to take effect in possession or enjoyment after the death of the grantor or bargainer, to any person or persons, or to any body or bodies, politic or corporate, in trust or otherwise, shall be, and hereby are, made subject to a duty or tax, to be paid to the United States, as follows— that is to say: Where the whole amount of said personal property shall exceed in value ten thousand and shall not exceed in value the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars the tax shall be: * * * ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Herold v. Blair